‘Can’t you just tell us the rule?’: teaching procedures relationally

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‘Can’t you just tell us the rule?’: teaching procedures relationally

It is now almost 40 years since Skemp’s (1976) seminal division of understanding into ‘instrumental’ and ‘relational’ categories, yet the current political direction of mathematics education in the UK is decidedly towards the traditional teaching of ‘standard algorithms’ (DfE, 2013). In this researc...

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Main Author:	Foster, Colin
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Algorithms; Conceptual knowledge; Instrumental understanding; Procedural knowledge; Quadratic equations; Relational understanding; Student autonomy
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32205/

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